checking oil when engine is cold...
#2
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No significant difference. Do a test if you want to confirm. Check it before you drive off the first time for the day. Then after it has warmed up and the car sits for 5 minutes or so, check it again.
#3
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thanks. It's just that the bloody dipstick is located in such a lousy spot I keep getting small burns from the hot pipes and metals around it. And my hands aren't even that big!
#5
I wonder why Mazda recommends checking the oil on a warm engine that has been sitting for a few minutes. The "old school" logic is to check it dead cold to get the most accurate reading, and it's not as if the oil has to drain down from a valvetrain or anything.
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I have problems with the plastic tube coming out together with the dipstick if I'm trying to check the oils when engine cold... when warm the dipstick comes out nicely without the plastic tube...
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